After Israel Adesanya’s win over Anderson Silva at UFC 234 last weekend, Chris Weidman tweeted that he thought Adesanya was overrated. You can read those tweets here. This didn’t sit well with a lot of fans, who weren’t shy in telling the former UFC middleweight champion.

Weidman has since replied to some of those fans on Twitter, sticking to his guns that ‘The Last Style Bender’ is overrated and explaining his reasoning.

He wouldn’t have much of a chance against me. Has he fought a top 5 guy yet ? A jitsu guy or top wrestler?

— Chris Weidman (@chrisweidman) February 12, 2019

Got a lot of Twitter fingers coming at me about saying Israel is a little overrated. Just my opinion. He hasn’t fought 1 top 5 guy. No top wrestler or jitsu guy. Was a -700 fave over Silva??? According to odds after seeing fight showed he was overrated. Close fight

— Chris Weidman (@chrisweidman) February 12, 2019

No. Are you aloud to call someone overrated ? Yes you can. Sooo I can as well. I am a multiple time world champ and I can’t have an opinion ?

— Chris Weidman (@chrisweidman) February 12, 2019

While a lot of fans took offence from Weidman’s comments, Adesanya doesn’t appear to be losing any sleep over them. You can read his response to Weidman’s comments here.

There’s a lot of uncertainty right now in the UFC middleweight division and many fights that would make sense at the top. And one of those would be Weidman vs Adesanya.

Do you agree with Weidman’s comments? And would you like to see these two meet inside the Octagon?

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